# Jim Pocock — The Ambassadors character guide

> Jim Pocock in The Ambassadors by Henry James.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Jim, Pocock, poor Jim

**First appearance:** 0024-i

## Who they are

Sarah's husband, a bluff, good-natured American businessman who tags along to Paris and takes everything far less seriously than his wife.

## Relationships

### [Lambert Strether](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/lambert_strether)

_social_

Jim is a jovial, unrefined member of the Pocock family who interacts with Strether in a casual, superficial manner.

### [Sarah Pocock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/sarah_pocock)

_family_

Jim is Sarah's husband, and they operate as a married couple within the Pocock delegation.

### [Chad Newsome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/chad_newsome)

_family_

Jim is Chad's brother-in-law, and their interactions are casual and familial.

### [Lambert Strether](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/lambert_strether)

_social_

Jim is a jovial, unrefined member of the Pocock family who interacts with Strether in a casual, superficial manner.

### [Lambert Strether](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/lambert_strether)

_social_

Jim is a jovial, unrefined member of the Pocock family who interacts with Strether in a casual, superficial manner.

### [Chad Newsome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/chad_newsome)

_family_

Jim is Chad's brother-in-law, and their interactions are casual and familial.

### [Sarah Pocock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/sarah_pocock)

_family_

Jim is Sarah's husband, and they operate as a married couple within the Pocock delegation.

### [Chad Newsome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/chad_newsome)

_family_

Jim is Chad's brother-in-law, and their interactions are casual and familial.

### [Sarah Pocock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/characters/sarah_pocock)

_family_

Jim is Sarah's husband, and they operate as a married couple within the Pocock delegation.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/chapters/ii)

Expresses pleasure at the Parisian scene; defers to Sally in moral matters; feels his type lags behind his wife's and sister's.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/chapters/i)

Characterized as intensely cynical; Strether believes Jim may counteract Sarah's spell and help their cause.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/chapters/ii)

Described as 'the note of home' and 'extremely awful'; Strether is to take him to the Varieties.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_ambassadors_se/chapters/i)

Is being entertained by Madame de Vionnet at the party.

## Links

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